THE DAILY ISLAMIC REMINDERS.  Yaum Ath-thalaatha. 28th day of Rajab. (Tuesday, 29th February 2022). THE REALITY IN LIFE. BismilLah. 

Someone sent me this Khutbah and I felt it's important I share it with my brothers and sisters with little editing. Let's read through twice and rethink our priorities in life. 

When did you watch a football match? next time you watch again take a look at the players, the referees, the linesmen, and the spectators. Out of all these categories of people, the only people who don't wear a wristwatch are the players on the field. They get into the pitch and play their hearts out knowing that even though they don't know the exact time, the exact minute the game will end and the whistle will be blown,  they are conscious of the fact that the game will definitely end when the one holding the timer blows his whistle.

I liken this to our race here on earth. We are on the pitch of play called life. And even though we all wear wristwatches, they are just a man-made devise to guide our daily activities and give us a sense of timing. 

The one who holds time is somewhere waiting and watching us play our game on the pitch of life. He has a horn. When the time is up, by HIS OWN timing, HE will order the whistle to be blown and the game will be over and then winners and losers will emerge and rewards will be given to deserving players.

Even in football, It is only after the referee's whistle has sounded that you notice some people weep😭🤓 or jubilate. Some cry and gnash their teeth because it's all over! The game is over and the time is up!  They weep because  they see missed opportunities, missed scoring chances, but by that time, the time is up! The game is over!

And those who celebrate do so because they won the match. They were adjudged winners and deserving of the much-contested trophy🏆. 

Let me encourage you today, dear brothers and sisters that your wristwatch is not the time.🤗

Oh no it's not! The time is with the one who created time and only HE determines when the time starts and stops for each one of us. He hear others dying each day but do we sit down and ask ourselves when we will be visiting the grave?

 

With this in mind, let's strive for mastery and reach for the goal as we play on the pitch of life... 

The play is still on....

I sense we have long returned from our half-time break. 

I sense that we may perhaps be in our extra time, just in case we will capitalise on the extra time to hit the goal correctly.... 

*Tick - tock-tick-tock... Time ⏱ is going...*

It is not our wristwatch that's reading, it's God's time ticking away.... Play your game well.....

Play it with an utmost concentration...Shut out the spectators who are either _Cheering or Jeering_.....Keep your eyes 👀 on the goal post....

*Play sensibly knowing you may win or lose within anytime!

May ALLAH keeps guiding us all and protect us from any satanic influences. Aameen.